Elections are a busy period for most politicians – the time when they hit the streets of their constituencies, knock on doors and hand out thousands of leaflets – all in an attempt to keep their seats in the House of Commons. And while some undoubtably do work hard for every ballot slip, some MPs are inclined to exaggerate their own heroic efforts when it comes to winning a tightly-fought vote.
It appeared that the Labour MP Jess Phillips may have fallen into that trap this afternoon, when she appeared on the BBC’s Politics Live. When discussing the 2017 general election and how important Brexit was to her constituents, the Birmingham Yardley MP emphasised her point by saying that she had personally knocked on 25,000 doors during the six week election period, and only 12 people had discussed Britain’s departure from the EU.
That’s certainly a huge amount of doors to knock on during an election period.
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